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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I'll do that.

All I want to do is play baseball.

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.

I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body and prolong my peak years as a baseball player.